The Long Walk to the Tap

In Suna's village, the water tap is far from home.

Every morning, she walks thirty minutes to fill two heavy buckets.

The road is dusty, and the sun is hot.

Her little brother cannot go to school because he carries water too.

In the next town, people turn on a tap inside their kitchen.

Clean water comes out every hour of the day.

Suna saw this once, and she asked her mother why.

Her mother said, "Good roads and pipes cost money, and our village is small." Suna still walks every morning, but now she draws a map of the pipes she dreams of.